Comments on: YouTube signs Sony, preps site for studio content

Video site continues to strike important deals with major entertainment companies and plans a redesign to showcase professional movies and TV shows.

[BlitzBoy1120]

There is no way I'm ever going to pay Youtube, even if they're micro-payments.

[paulsecic]

I'll contue using HULU. They've got hundreds of vintage shows & new shows.

[Hunnter2k3]

I'm glad they have finally made this move.
Making the process as seamless as possible is the most important thing.
Not sure if i am totally behind the whole Sony Crackle player thing, since it is sort of split from Youtube player, but it could be a positive, depends how it will be done.


Also, copyright issues again? Are they serious?
Few examples of ripping content from Youtubes:
1) screen recorders
2) download interceptors
3) connection monitors and downloaders. (download Helper and Orbit being good examples)

Quite simply, anything they do will be ripped apart, with time.
These tips will spread all over, we, "the internet", will make tools, Google change encryption, we update, etc.
They'd be better off just shoving some random crappy encryption layer on it and say "there, it is protected", but it will always be a lie because nothing will be 100% secure if it is to be decrypted to be displayed.
The only way would be encryption hardware on every computer, encrypted memory spaces, etc.
The chances of that happening are basically zero, hell, null.

[katee721]

While this change is great for film and television content, it will strain the YouTube community.
There are thousands of people who rely on the user-generated content for their YouTube experience.
The 'little guy' isn't considered in this situation, and in the end they will not use youTube anymore.

[SmoothIAm]

katee721, the idea that the little guy will leave the site is nonsense. They wouldn't get 1/10 of the traffic they would get on Youtube. I have seen many Youtube creators try to leave and they always comeback especially if they were a Youtube partner and making money off ads. Perez Hilton was the only person that I have seen leave YT successfully and he had a TV show and a website that was getting millions of views a day before he even came to Youtube. Myspace video is a joke. Ask Warner Music how the videos are going since Youtube told them to take hike after they wanted to much money.

It no workie :(

When I go to http://www.youtube.com/shows I get a 500 server error. I guess the launch is a bit bumpy.

[shootthecops]

we saw the MGM movies, there were titles no one cares about, low quality and windowboxed (when full-screened). let's see if they try the same thing again

[paul.saulnier]

Tread lightly, Google. YouTube's massive popularity comes from its ubiquity and traditional ease of ability for anyone to upload videos and share with the world. Toy with this, and you will experience a stunning and swift failure as the increasingly unforgiving online community punishes you for ignoring them. There's plenty of rising video sharing sites that can replace you very quickly.

A more impressive, relevant deal signing would've been one that means YouTube will stop deleting/muting videos that supposedly contain Sony's work.

[talkingfuture]

Bring it to the rest of the world please Google!

[kernalSeiden]

Youtube should stay youtube, and quit trying to compete with the aliens that run Hulu. Hulu is awesome ( if only because Seth McFarlane is in the commercial ).
Like every great online phenomenon; It stats off small, grass roots. It gains an underground type following. It blows up, becomes huge. Then the banner ads get bigger. Then they get bought by a big corp ( i would say evil corp, but that would be redundant ). It looses what made it great in the first place. It dies ( though by now it's too dumb to fall over)
then something better crops up from the ashes!!!
It's the DotCom circle of life !!!!!
Youtube....i'll miss you.

Exciting news, especially the way Greg Sandoval writes it up!